NEWS2 or the updated National Early Warning Score was released by the Royal College of Physicians in December 2017. NEWS is used to improve the recognition of severity of illness in unwell patients and trigger escalation of care. NEWS has been shown to be good at identifying early when a patient’s health is worsening, and…
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The South of England Mental Health Collaborative, of which the West of England AHSN is a member, has scored a hat trick at the recent Training Journal Awards. Now in their 12th year, the Awards recognise the ingenuity, creativity, passion and hard work of learning and development professionals from around the world. The winners were announced…
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Building on the work of our Patient Safety Collaborative in the West of England, the National Quality Board endorsed the adoption of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) across NHS acute care in June 2017 and this has become a clinical priority for NHS England. As part of NHS Improvement’s national Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC)…
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Members of our Patient Safety Collaborative were at Patient First in London this week, the UK’s largest patient safety event, to showcase and share learning from some of the initiatives we’ve been developing in the West of England. We presented three posters at the event on: our work to implement the National Early Warning Score…
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Hospital trusts across the country are being urged to use an initiative developed in the West of England to improve patient safety in emergency departments. The recommendation to all trusts in England to implement the ‘Emergency Department (ED) Safety Checklist’ comes in a letter issued this week by NHS Improvement. Designed to address the shared…
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Our Don’t Wait to Anticoagulate (DWAC) project won a prestigious Anticoagulation Achievement Award this month for its achievements in stroke prevention. DWAC won the category ‘The centre best able to demonstrate adherence to NICE quality standards for atrial fibrillation’. The Anticoagulation Achievement Awards celebrate outstanding practice in the management, education and provision of anticoagulation across the UK.…
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Developed in maternity units across the West of England, the ‘PReCePT’ project has been selected by the Health Foundation to be part of an ambitious £3.5 million improvement programme. The Scaling Up Improvement programme is supporting seven projects in the UK to take their proven health care interventions and approaches and make them work at…
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We hosted the sixth NEWS event as part of our Deteriorating Patient Programme on 28 September 2017 at Kings Weston House in Bristol. Attended by 80 delegates from 36 different organisations, all six acute trusts in the West of England were represented, along with community providers, mental health providers and care homes. We have been…
Read moreNIHR CLAHRC West are collaborating with the West of England AHSN to evaluate the effectiveness of using the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in out-of-hospital settings. In hospital, early warning scores are routinely used to monitor patients’ condition and identify if they are at risk of getting worse. Staff are trained to intervene when abnormal…
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In July our patient safety team travelled to Manchester to meet with people from across the country interested in patient safety as part of the national Patient Safety Congress. Now in its 10th year, the Congress also included the HSJ patient safety awards and we were delighted to win the award for Best Patient Safety…
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